Next month, May 7 - 23, the Museum of Modern Art will be staging a 14-film retrospective honoring multiple-award winning filmmaker, Kim Longinotto. Longinotto has been building an extraordinary body of nonfiction cinematic work for the past several decades and is one of our most sensitive (and prolific) storytellers.
Longinotto has spent the last thirty years of her life creating intimate portraits of extraordinary people from all over the world (still from her film, with Jano Williams, Shinjuku Boys, 1995). The films featured in the retrospective present a diversity of subject matter, often from the perspectives of those we normally never hear from. Longinotto will be in New York for the premiere of her Sundance World Cinema jury prize-winning Rough Aunties (2009), as well as throughout opening weekend.
The retrospective is organized by the MoMA department of film's assistant curator, Sally Berger, in collaboration with Women Make Movies, Longinotto's US distributor (they have all 14 films in their catalog), marking the first time that such a comprehensive look at her work has been staged in the States. To see a full screening schedule and information for ordering tickets, you can either go to the MoMA site or click here.
Longinotto will also be teaching a Master Class at DCTV co-presented by WMM and DocuClub, Saturday May 9 from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., moderated by WMM's executive director, Debra Zimmerman. It's $50 for DCTV and DocuClub members, $75 for all others. Room is limited, so if you want to attend, you should RSVP soon to [email protected]. To read my wonderful conversation with Longinotto from last summer when she was cutting and finishing Rough Aunties in London, click here.
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